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Show HER LAST HOUR OF SERVICE This Newark Domestic Made a Cleanly Clean-ly Exit, Aided by the Services of Her Employer. Mariar was going. For a week the housework had stood still, "because" as Mrs. Woodside said, "you can't ask a. maid to do anything when she's leaving." leav-ing." For a week the kitchen range had been cold, likewise the water tank beside be-side it; and, there being no gas heater In the Woodside home, the grownups had contented themselves with cold baths and the children with such puri-.flcation puri-.flcation as could be accomplished with -Occasional bedtime teakettles of hot water. "I ought to have Mariar start the fire," said the mistress, "but it ineans bringing up coal "from the cellar, cel-lar, and I'm afraid to ask her." The hour of Mariar's departure had! arrived. She lazied through the breakfast break-fast dishwashing, then disappeared upstairs up-stairs to pack. Mrs. Woodside went into the deserted kitchen and said, "'Now I'll have a fire and boilerful of hot water at last." She brought kindling and coal from the lower regions, re-gions, sho built the fire and stoked it for an hour, until the water tank gave out a grateful heat Then she vent to look for Mariar. The outgoing maid was not In her .room. Mrs. Woodside came down from the third floor perplexed. Could Ma-Tiar Ma-Tiar have gone without saying good-hy? good-hy? Then from behind the closed door of the bathroom came the Joyous sound of one luxuriating in a porcelain porce-lain tub filled with glorious hot water. wa-ter. Mariar was taking a bath. New--rk News. |